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Sep 25, 1410
Four Crowned Saints
By Nanni di Banco, he started to built the sculpture in 1410 and finished it in 1412. It is located in the Orsanmichele Church in Florence, Italy. -
Sep 25, 1412
St. John the Baptist
Located in Orsanmichele in Florence, Italy. It is a bronze sculpture, it is 255 cm tall. It was finished in 1416 -
Oct 25, 1415
Battle of Againcourt
It was a major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years' War. -
Sep 25, 1428
Primavera
It is a tempera panel painting by Italian renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. -
Sep 25, 1429
Pazzi Chapel
In 1429 Filippo Brunelleschi started the Pazzi Chapel and finished it in 1461. The Pazzi Chapel is located in Florence, Italy. It is a small domed chapel, considered to be one of the masterpieces of renaissance architecture. -
Sep 25, 1440
Printing Press Invented
The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. -
Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. -
Period: Mar 6, 1475 to Feb 18, 1564
Michelangelo
Was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. -
Sep 25, 1489
Palazzo Strozzi
The Palazzo Strozzi was built by Benedetto da Maiano, and it was started in 1489, and it was finished in 1539 by Simone del Pollaiuolo. It is located in Florence, Italy. -
Sep 25, 1492
The end of the Middle Ages
Lorenzo the Magnificent dies in Florence, Columbus discovers America (almost), and Granada falls, which is why 1492 is regarded by many as symbolically the last year of the Middle Ages! Unrelated to these internationally seismic events, it was also the year that Roderigo de Borgia became Pope Alessandro VI. -
Sep 25, 1503
Mona Lisa
Is a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel. Leonardo da Vinci finished it in 1519. -
Sep 25, 1504
David
Is a sculpture made by Michelangelo. It is 17 foot tall. It was located in a public square outside of the Palazzo della Signoria, then it was moved to the Accademia Gallery in Florence in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica. -
Sep 25, 1509
The School of Athens
Is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was finished in 1510. -
Sep 25, 1538
Piazza del Campidoglio
Michelangelo started to built it in 1538 and finished it in 1650, it is located in Rome, Italy. It have a elliptical courtyard with central figure sculpture. -
Period: Apr 26, 1564 to
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He was on the literary movement of English Renaissance theatre.